218 NocTuiDJ^:. 



purplish grey, slightlj' waved, strongly dentate at veins 4, 3, 2 ; 

 a series of purplish-grey lunules in interspaces of terminal area; 

 cilia with a fine grey lino at base. Hind wing reddish broAvn with 

 a deep red-hrown streak on vein 2, towards termen irrorated with 

 a few grey scales ; a grey subterrainal line from vein 6 to termen 

 at vein 1 ; cilia with fine whitish lines at base and near tips. 

 Underside of both wings irrorated with purplish white especially 

 beyond the curved subterminal line ; hind wing with traces of 

 discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



One male and the female have the 3rd joint of palpi long and 

 somewhat dilated at extremity, the other male has it short. 



Hah. W. China, Moupin : 8ikhim (Russell), 2 c5' , 1 ? type. E.iy. 

 62 millim. 



Genus (EDIPLEXIA, nov. 



Type, 0?. mesopkfsa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and frinsed with bain in Front, the 3rd short ; frons with 

 rounded prominence with slight ridge across it ; eyes large, rounded; antennte 

 of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales, the pro- and metathorax 

 with large spreading crests ; tibiae fringed with hair ; abdomen with large 

 dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 

 termen evenly curved ; veins 3 and b from near angle of cell ; 6 from just 

 below upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent 

 from below middle of discocellulars ; G, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



2995. (Ediplexia mesophsea, n. sp. 



(S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark brown, the 

 hairs tipped with grey ; tarsi black ringed with ochreous ; abdomen 

 grey-brown, the dorsal crests reddish. Fore wing red-brown, the 

 medial area suffused with dark brown except towards costa ; 

 subbasal line represented by blackish points below costa and cell ; 



(Ediplexia mesophcsa, c? . 



antemedial line with black point at costa, slightly excurved, 

 interrupted at the veins, with some dark suffusion before it on 

 inner area ; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular red-brown 

 defined by black, touching a small spot defined by black below the 

 cell ; reniforra ochreous suffused with rufous, defined by black on 

 inner side only ; traces of a curved black medial line ; postmedial 

 line with black point at costa, bent outwards beloAv costa, then 

 minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, with black 

 points beyond it on veins 4, 3 ; subterminal line indistinct. 



